The Consequences Of Robotic Technology

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Moving on to next thing that I would like to appreciate the learning opportunity to discover the new technology in every class. I always considered myself to be tech-savvy. The word is used to describe a person who is well informed about or proficient in the use of modern technology, especially computers. However, I discovered numerous newly invented technologies every class through the robotics news report or at the beginning of every class when professor Eguchi introduced us to new technology. One of the memorable technologies that we covered in this semester was the autonomous car or self-driving car development. I have watched in cartoons or imagined about this ingenious concept when I was young. I never expected that I would hear the news …show more content…
For this lesson, we watched several educational movies and documentaries. The memorable ones are the movie called, Artificial Intelligence (2001 film) by Steven Spielberg, and I, Robot (2004 film) by Alex Proyas, lastly the documentary titled, Rise of Machines: Documentary on the Future of Human Like Robots. All these videos have one thing in common, they are all trying to send an important message. Humans need to start educating ourselves and understand the ethical implications and consequences of robotic technology. Throughout our research on new technologies, we learned that the autonomous robot technology is developing rapidly and the robotic market is showing exponential growth. However, our society does not prepare for the new technology …show more content…
In my opinion, the struggle has not ended yet. I can still find news about cyber-crimes, cyber fraud, and cyber wars between one country to others. The problem with the adolescent internet addiction has not been solved, and the porn industry is expanding every year. The original reason we invented the internet was to offer information in sufficient ways and share them through global communication using computers. There is no argument that globalization could be possible without the development of the internet. However, I feel like the lack of preparation for the internet magnified the problems that could’ve been prevented. Adding on to the problem with internet, we can even discuss about the recent problem with a smartphone. The android or iPhone technology was very helpful and innovative. The positive impacts of smartphones on just social society is huge. As a result of the smartphone technology development now the society have better way to communicate with people such as; Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat. This is the only one in many positive impacts of the smartphone technology. However, the applied science of smartphone also has the serious negative effect like other technologies. Foremost, the smartphone addiction became a serious problem in recent year. It is affecting any age group starting from young children to grown-ups also it is the world-wide problem. To convince the

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